Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal (Scotch) preterit of
laugh .
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Examples
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The twa-handed sword that hang leugh by his thigh;
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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'And though we leugh at these, like Doaters fonde,
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The twa-handed sword that hung leugh by his thigh;
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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The Duchess of Bucc [leugh] (61) is very far gone with child; but I believe I told you so in my last.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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I leugh at her tales; an 'last owk, i' the gloamin ',
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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The twa-handed sword that hang leugh by his thigh;
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various
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The Duchess of Bucc [leugh] (61) is very far gone with child; but I believe I told you so in my last.
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"God lukit, and saw her lattin in, and leugh His heart sair."
The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Andrew Lang 1878
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‘leugh’; with others more than can be enumerated here {192}.
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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"To come hame, I behoved to ken whare hame was; now, I had clean tint the name of the wynd, and the mair I asked, the mair the folk leugh, and the farther they sent me wrang; sae I gave it up till God should send daylight to help me; and as I saw mysell near a kirk at the lang run, I e'en crap in to take up my night's quarters in the kirkyard."
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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